Background

Mr. Dick Williams has been Chief Executive Officer and President of Webroot Inc. (formerly, Webroot Software Inc.) since August 2009. Mr. Williams served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Wily Technology since 2001. Mr. Williams has more than 40 years of technology industry experience, extensive operational and leadership experience as well as a deep understanding of the enterprise software market. Mr. Williams' career has spanned sales, marketing and senior ... product, finance, and business management positions at IBM including Vice President of the Data Systems and General Products Division; President and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Research, where he accomplished a complete turn-around and a successful sale to Novell; Head of worldwide sales and support for Novell, and General Manager of the Digital Research Systems Group; President and Chief Executive Officer of Illustra Information Technologies; and Co-founder of Quokka and as Senior Vice President and General Manager of CA's Wily Technology Division with full responsibility for the Wily business. He served as the Chairman of Altor Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks). He served as the Chairman of Hyperic, Inc. (acquired by SprintSource Global) since January 2008. He served as the Chairman of Quokka Sports from 1998 to October 2000 and Vice-Chairman from October 2000 to April 2001. He has been a Director of LogRhythm, Inc. since May 29, 2013. He has been a Director of Fortify Software, Inc. since April 2, 2008, Cloudera, Inc. since July 25, 2013 and Lontra, Inc. since June 2007. He serves as a Director of Webroot Inc., 3VR Security and Hyperic, Inc. He served as a Director of support.com, Inc. (also known as SupportSoft Inc.), from June 2002 to May 2006. He served as a Member of Strategic Advisory Board of Lontra, Inc. since May 2007. Mr. Williams holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of North Dakota.

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